Twitter users send 50 million tweets per day

By Claudine Beaumont, Technology Editor Published: 9:15AM GMT twenty-three February 2010

The 10 billionth twitter has been sent by the Twitter microblogging use

Twitter, that was launched in 2007, has enjoyed fast expansion in new months. In 2007, around 5,000 tweets were sent per day, with that augmenting to 300,000 messages per day in 2008. The series of tweets sent last year grew by 1,400 per cent, to around 35 million per day, and that figure right away stands at 50 million tweets sent per day.

"Tweets per day is only one series to think about," wrote Kevin Weil, a part of of the Twitter analytics team, on the association blog. "Tweet deliveries are a most higher number, since once created, tweets contingency be delivered to mixed followers. Then there"s poke and so most alternative ways to magnitude and assimilate expansion opposite the report network. We"ll take time to share some-more information, so greatfully stay tuned."

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According to Sean Garrett, clamp boss of communications at Twitter, twenty per cent of tweets or rounded off 83 messages per second enclose a anxiety to a product or brand.

However, wake up on Twitter is lilliputian by that on alternative social-networking and media-sharing sites. YouTube not long ago voiced that it was portion a billion videos per day, definition web users watch roughly twenty times as most clips on the site each day as they send tweets.

And Facebook users outlay around eight billion mins on the site each day, with around a billion messages sent by Facebook"s discuss module on a every day basis.

Nonetheless, Twitter continues to capture successful users, together with Google"s Eric Schmidt and Microsoft"s Bill Gates.

The Dalai Lama even has an comment on the microblogging site. The central Twitter comment of the banished Tibetan personality replaces a feign comment that operated underneath the same name last year.